matrices and resonances
2018 - 2019
In 2018, Florence Ruggiero, director of the Functional Genomics Institute in Lyon, told me about her research and an image: a microscope photograph of the extracellular matrix of a muscle tissue.
This extracellular matrix reminded me of the Grande rue de la Guillotière: its crossing and structuring form, its function of interface between inhabitants, its dynamics of perpetual adaptation.
For Gaston Bachelard, the materiological reveries allow to assure suture and interweaving of the sensible and the intelligible. These reveries are activated and scandalized by the movements of the body, its gestures and rhythms.
The approach of this grammar of the imaginary led me to conduct an observant, physical and dreamlike experience of my living space.
I stopped at the Partagère: urban furniture for inter-dweller mediation that allows the exchange of objects: books, dishes, music records, ... For several months I randomly collected all kinds of clothes there.
A triptych exhibition stems from this laboratory of the imagination: a microscopic photograph of the extracellular matrix of a muscular tissue, a weaving made from clothes that belonged to the inhabitants of the Grande rue neighborhood and a puzzle breaking down an aerial view of the neighborhood.
A triptych exhibition stems from this laboratory of the imagination: a microscopic photograph of the extracellular matrix of a muscular tissue, a weaving made from clothes that belonged to the inhabitants of the Grande rue neighborhood and a puzzle breaking down an aerial view of the neighborhood.
The different spaces of representation that are the microscopic view, the map, and the weaving canvas are superimposed with the lived spaces: to walk, to feel and to be one with the urban and social body... then, to submit to strangers fragments of their neighborhood (pieces of the puzzle) with a tiny chance to see them reconstitute it.
